Quotes

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.